Our program is conducting a “stakeholder” survey to help us set curricular priorities. So far, nearly all (97%) of the respondents have been program alumni. This graphic lists the most common words in the responses to the “job description” question, with size corresponding to frequency. It gives an idea of what our allumni do…

The 2014 MSOE BE Senior Presentations will take place on Friday, May 23 from 8:30 to 10:30 am in the Grohmann Auditorium. The “auditorium” is a large classroom like room on the first floor of the Grohmann Museum which is located at 1000 North Broadway, Milwaukee, 53202. Coffee and continental breakfast items will be provided. The presentations will also be webcast on the MSOE Biomedical Engineering program channel on ustream (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/msoe-biomedical-engineering-program). While your wait for our video feed to start you can watch live video from the ISS at – http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload.

Parking will be available in any MSOE lot on the day of the presentations.

The Senior Design Show, a poster session style event involving all MSOE programs, will take place after the presentations from 11:00 am to 2:30 pm. The biomedical engineering teams will be in MSOE’s Walter Schroeder Library for the design show.

The last paragraph struck me as particularly interesting. In the same way the post office sometimes gets blamed for lost checks that were never mailed, I think the FDA sometimes gets blamed for complicating things that medical devices companies don’t know how to or simply don’t want to do. I went to the FDA website and found the following Guidance Document: http://www.fda.gov/medicaldevices/deviceregulationandguidance/guidancedocuments/ucm077812.htm (those of you how have heard my FDA presentations know how useful guidance documents can be).

MSOE is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (800) 621-7440, (www.ncahlc.org). Additional program accreditation includes the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission of ABET, American Council for Construction Education (ACCE), and Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) and Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP).